For tonight we rented "Barbershop".

We also rented a 1974 Italian film called "The Night Porter". We had not heard of it before; the cover just caught our attention. The description on the back sounded good, so we thought what the heck. IMDB.com gives it 6.5 stars out of 10, so that's not too bad. It is a five day movie, so we can watch it whenever.

Our old Friday night routine was to get a take-out pizza from Lou Malnati's and a movie. Lately we have been eating at Portillo's on Friday nights, and then going across the street to rent a movie. Tonight I had an Italian beef with sweet peppers, and a hot dog with mustard, onion, tomato, cucumber, and a dill pickle spear. Sheri had a hamburger. We split a large order of fries and an iced tea.

On the right side of my blog page, right above the Chicago radar, I have a new icon. It will tell what the current weather is my means of showing a little person wearing weather appropriate clothes. (i.e. just a winter coat, a winter coat and ear muffs, or a winter coat with the hood pulled up.) The background will show night or day depending on the time, and the weather conditions; rain, snow, sun, clouds, wind, etc. It also shows temperature, humidity, wind direction and speed, atmospheric pressure, and the time that the weather observation was made. I think it is a pretty efficient way to know what the weather is with one quick look.

This weekend I have to write my paper for school and read two chapters. We might hang some pictures and our new chalk board too.

I bought a copy of The Economist magazine the other night. My professor talked about it in class and said it has excellant writing, and is a very good source of world information. He asked if anyone in the class subscribed, and to my amazement one women raised her hand. (I was amazed that anyone subscribed, not that it was a woman.) If I like it, I think I can get a student's discount subscription.